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Rose S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1536) interviewed by Selma Dubnick and Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1536

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jodłowa, Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing; remaining with her brother and grandfathers; searches by German police seeking her father; Germans beating her paternal grandfather; his death; hiding with her brother in her maternal grandparents' house; warnings by a non-Jew of an imminent German search; hiding in the forests, then in the home of her father's business associate, with her brother and parents for two and a half years; going out to obtain food; denouncement; arrest; escaping from prison; hiding in the forest, then returning to her father's associate's house; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Pilzno, Bytom, and through Czechoslovakia and Austria; living in Ulm displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: S., Rose, 1925-
Published: Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
Interview Date: July 24, 1989.
Locale: Poland
Jodłowa (Poland)
Pilzno (Poland)
Bytom (Poland)
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Cite As: Rose S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1536). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Dubnick, Selma, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 36 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Forests.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Escapes. Refugee camps. Poland. Jodłowa (Poland) Pilzno (Poland) Bytom (Poland) Czechoslovakia. Austria. Oral histories (document genres) S., Rose,--1925-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295398
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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